Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 18 Apr 2012 20:09:29 +0300 | From | Lasse Collin <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] kconfig: update compression algorithm info |
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On 2012-04-18 H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On 04/18/2012 09:40 AM, Lasse Collin wrote: > > - LZO should give the fastest boot from a hard disk (desktop > > systems where file size doesn't matter much). > > That really depends on the speed of your disk vs CPU.
Yes. Maybe it isn't good to give so clear recommendation for LZO over gzip here.
I think it is still safe to say that gzip and LZO are better than bzip2, XZ, or LZMA for compressing a kernel that will be loaded from a normal hard disk. It would be unusual if reading the disk was so slow that e.g. XZ would make the booting faster than gzip.
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